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Here is a thought experiment. You have the choice of listening to a sermon entitled, "How to be an authentic Christian and stay on good terms with the world" or, "How to live an authentic Christian life when the world hates you". One presupposes that you can remain in step … [Read more...] about Flattery

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.